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Re: the recent World Jewish Hockey Tournament in Israel
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The State of Israel has managed to send national teams to Junior and Senior International Ice Hockey Federation Championships for the past decade, despite the fact that it has only one regulation rink in the entire country. The ice surface, built by Canadian patrons, is [...]
Baseball beach reading
Looking for some good beach reading? Try some of these baseball novels with Jewish themes or characters. A word of warning: some of these titles are long out of print, but you can find them on used book sites, such as Amazon.com.
I may be wrong, but I doubt you’ll find too much adult fiction about [...]
A way-cool source
Every issue of the classic publication is available through Google books.
The first issue: July 1945. Cover price: 15 cents. Tag line: “64 Pages — and Every Word Baseball!”
Thanks to John Zajc of the Society for American Baseball Research and writer Rob Neyer for the item.
The next step is to go through them all for Jewish [...]
It’s never too hot for flannel
Even in this sweltering NJ heat.
Just received a flyer from Ebbets Field Flannel, a company that specializes in replications of old baseball jerseys, hats, etc.
Here’s one that I hope will be hanging on my wall some day:
Product description:
1920 Philadelphia Hebrews Road Jersey
Independent team
Exact reproduction of the 1920 road jersey
100% navy with white pinstripe wool baseball [...]
The Jewish Major Leaguers 2009 card set: A “critical” analysis
Hey, to some, baseball cards are a critical subject.
The fifth set of cards produced by JewishMajorLeaguers continues to improve on its self-appointed theme.
Card #1: Intro card, describing the set as the “Record Setters” Edition
Cards 2-5: All-time roster of Jewish Major Leaguers
Cards 6-7: Career batting leaders (including home runs, runs batted in, hits, and batting average) [...]
You can’t Topps this
I’ll trade you two Ryan Brauns for a Bernie Madoff:
2009 Topps Allen & Ginter shipping in June will include an insert that features the “world’s biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles,” including disgraced ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff. The cards feature 20 perpetrators of some of the most notorious pranks, dubious claims, and outright frauds of the [...]
A Mensa moment
The following comes from my Mensa page-a-day calendar (no wisecracks) for March 19:
The storage box for my baseball cards has room for most of my cards, and, on a nearby shelf, I keep the extra 16 cards that do not fit. If I expand the length of the box by 30%, I’ll have room for [...]
Baseball annuals: A lament
Judging by the email I’ve received, I would guess that many of you are of an age before the Internet made instant gratification an inalienable right. If you wanted “the latest” information on the upcoming baseball season, you got it from from the annual magazines that came out in the early spring, supplemented by other [...]
Putting a new spin on dreidels
If something appears on ESPN, does it automatically qualify as a sport?
The cable outlet has been featuring the World Series of Poker for a few years now, so that might be good enough for you. And if that’s the case then, then, by extension, you might be interested in “No Limit Texas Dreidel,” a game [...]
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